Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword by Gilbert Achcar -- Preface to the English Translation -- 1992-2018 -- Negative Authority -- Keywords: Vitalism, Historism -- Secularism and the Sociology of Fate -- One Post-colonialist Standard -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to the Second Arabic Edition -- Introduction -- 1 Religion and the World in Historical Perspective -- 1 On the Term "Secularism" -- 2 Religion and Public Life in Christian Commonwealths -- 3 Islam and the World -- 2 The Reformist State and the Universalist Orientation -- 1 The State and its Society: Education and Secular Culture -- 2 The Secularisation of Daily Life -- 3 The State: From the Millet to the Secular State -- 3 Intellectual Transformations and Elusive Reconciliation -- 1 Evolutionism and Salafism -- 2 Translation and Equivocation -- 3 Explicit Secularism and Accord with Reality -- 4 Sites of Secularism in the Twentieth Century -- 1 Secular Legislation and Social Dynamics -- 2 Intellectual Secularism and Reformist Retrogression -- 3 Secularism and Politics -- 5 The Nationalist Era and the Future Besieged -- 1 The Flowering of Secularism and its Social Dynamic -- 2 State, Religion, and the Beleaguered Future -- 6 Secularism at the Turn of the Millennium in the Context of its Adversaries -- 1 The Discourse of Exceptionalism and its Auxiliaries -- 2 Islam, Politics, and Society -- 3 The Context of Secularism -- Bibliography -- Index…”